1950s Housewife Tries LSD

By on October 7, 2011 in News 90

A “stable, well-balanced” housewife describes her experience after receiving a 100 gama dose of LSD-25 as part of government research — she served as a voluntary participant in clinical trials of the drug. She tries to express what she sees but unfortunately “can’t talk in technicolor.” She sums the journey up with, “I’ve never seen such infinite beauty…this is reality.” Luckily, people who attempt such encounters now are jailed.

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  • Ricky Jazzercise

    “There is no mind control conspiracy”  – It’s just that we heavily regulate which chemicals people can and can’t do, which is the easiest way to manipulate consciousness. Amazing how many people will make this argument.

  • Ricky Jazzercise

    “There is no mind control conspiracy”  – It’s just that we heavily regulate which chemicals people can and can’t do, which is the easiest way to manipulate consciousness. Amazing how many people will make this argument.

  • Danny

    Does Disinformation ever think to post anything negative concerning drugs, or do they just assume everyone should be on dope or LSD?

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t realize the discussion of narcotics equated advocating their use.

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t realize the discussion of narcotics equated advocating their use.

  • Golchab

    facts are. to choose to put negative spin concerning anything would be biased. see http://www.foxnews.com

  • Wanooski

    Actually television is the easiest way to manipulate mass consciousness. See: well just about everything on TV.

  • http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

    I didnt realize LSD was a narcotic

  • http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

    Difference is: television can be actively controlled, and a trip is more… genuine?

  • Nunzio X

    Every time I hear people squawk about the “negative aspects” of this sort of exploration I want to vomit.

    The nay-sayers will sit in front of their TVs swallowing the most poisonous bullshit and then complain about pyschonauts “who just use drugs to escape reality.” Really? The same way you escape reality by watching FOX “News,” or wasting your money in the mall, or going to Disneyland on “vacation?” 

    I wish we could track down the woman in this video and see what she thinks of this experiment all these years later.

  • Nunzio X

    Every time I hear people squawk about the “negative aspects” of this sort of exploration I want to vomit.

    The nay-sayers will sit in front of their TVs swallowing the most poisonous bullshit and then complain about pyschonauts “who just use drugs to escape reality.” Really? The same way you escape reality by watching FOX “News,” or wasting your money in the mall, or going to Disneyland on “vacation?” 

    I wish we could track down the woman in this video and see what she thinks of this experiment all these years later.

  • Anonymous

    I must have done too much LDS back in the 60′s.

  • http://www.facebook.com/elpolloloco52 Josh Adkisson

    …and that’s a bad assumption how?

  • Monkey See Monkey Do

    Watch FOX, CBS, NBC or any of the others and you’ll get your fix of negative drug story propaganda.

  • http://www.facebook.com/IORDSEYTON Sasha Rives

    how many mics?
     

  • Ubise0

    it feels weird. I live right next to LA VA hospital. lol..

  • http://www.facebook.com/ter.xox Terri Ettinger

    you did a lot of latter day saints back in the 60′s? wow that’s weird man

  • Anonymous

    It’s totally not a Star Trek reference.

  • Monkey See Monkey Do

    I hear their sluts

  • Lucidfir

    100… they stated in the video, a tenth of a milligram.

  • LUCIDFIR

    What do their sluts sound like?

  • Luzilla66

    It’s the feeling. THEE feeling. The feeling you know is there but you can’t put your finger on it. Because you can’t point at it we’ll spend our entire lives drawing circles around its infinite beauty in a feeble attempt to bring its beauty to the eyes of another by showing what it is not. By being shown what it is not others can discover the negative space left in the center of it all; in the center of a circle. It’s between every word, between every breath, between every thought, between every note of music in this compositional symphony the whole universe is performing. Some call it God, but to even try to cage such limitless energy with a word is a dilution of its reality. THIS reality. Forget what you know about God. What do you feel? I can say these words but what do they mean to you? Subscribe to no religion; I try my hardest and yet I know that no one has the ability explain what I attempt to uncover. True wisdom can never be learned from another, only discovered for yourself.

    Do not try to see past the curtain as though some prize lay behind it. It IS the curtain. The mystery within mystery. The door to all marvels.

  • Dan

    If every post on drugs shows it in a favorable light (“if we were all only on LSD…”) then it doesn’t promote discussion…its just boring and flaky.

  • Mcmahonjoshua

    everyone here has got to be partially mentally retarded. For one none of you even understand the relatively simple drug you are taking… your all trying to bring about meaning and understanding from something which clearly distorts your point of view. I’m all for the use of the substance (done it a lot) but its people like you guys 
    (modern hippies) who draw life lessons from this shit  and make bold life judgements not realising your just an idiot under the effects of a substance and any life changing epiphany u have come up with is probably pointless or easily come by in a sober situation

  • Reallyreality

    Honestly I would have to disagree, I think it can bring a very therapeutic after effect, and that you can take away the fact that life is truly as beautiful as it was, and can also bring a more realisation that we are all the same, all a part of time-space rather than solely ourselves vs. the world. I would agree that you could come about this in a sober mind state, but LSD provides this almost different angle on life, which positives can be taken away from the experience.

  • Clean

    I had an epiphany a year after I tried lsd for the first time. I was completely sober, and yet, it was life-changing. I think lsd had something to do with this epiphany and I know my discoveries are real because I can find the same knowledge I learnt in the work of others, the work of people who never tried lsd because it wasn’t discovered yet.
    I don’t militantly endorse the use of psychedelics because I know that lsd is only a way to reformulate what you already know, you finish your trip and the only think you get is a lesson, an example. But if you don’t have the will to see beyond, you won’t learn anything from the experience, any experience.

  • Wanooski

    Fun with spelling.

  • Wanooski

    I guess television is something that people can use to feed their preconceived worldviews, where as a drug trip is not necessarily under anyone’s control.

  • Wanooski

    I guess television is something that people can use to feed their preconceived worldviews, where as a drug trip is not necessarily under anyone’s control.

  • Wanooski

    I guess television is something that people can use to feed their preconceived worldviews, where as a drug trip is not necessarily under anyone’s control.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-OBrien/901015149 Daniel O’Brien

    Fuck you with your “ Luckily, people who attempt such encounters now are jailed.” bullshit. Infinite beauty? The fuck is wrong with that? Don’t you think that’s what the world needs? Would you prefer everyone be strung out on crack and meth? Fuck you JacobSloan, you are an idiot.

  • Mr Willow

    Looks like somöne doesn’t easily recognise sarcasm. . . 

  • Gunnar-Freyr

    Unluckily, the reporter of this story has a narrow mind.

  • http://hormeticminds.blogspot.com/ Chaorder Gradient

    he must have slow DSL

  • Gergith

    I would NEVER have considered drugs if it were not for READING books and writings on/by Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was MY gateway drug. The idea that a substance could alter consciousness in new and weird ways that we don’t 100% understand yet. Kind of a way to hack your brain by looking at it from a different perspective.

  • Tamezzo12 12

    I have some points to make to refute your rather unnecessarily angry, testosterone-filled ramble:

    1. LSD, like any other drug, is a subjective experience. If you think it can help you, it probably will. If you think it will hurt you, it probably will. The attitude you’re giving off reminds me something along the lines of, “I DON’T THINK LSD HAS MEANING SO THEREFORE I KNOW I’M RIGHT AND ANYONE WHO HAS AN OPINION DIFFERENT FROM ME IS A RETARD IDIOT”. That’s so incredibly arrogant, and it makes you sound just as unintelligent as the people who say “LSD IS GOD’S GIFT ANYONE WHO DISAGREES IS A SHELTERED MORON BLAH BLAH BLAH.” You remind me of people on “ub3rk0r” youtube videos who cyber-scream at each other in all caps and call each other faggots over whether Avenge Sevenfold or Bring Me to the Horizon is better. Insulting people based on their completely arbitrary subjective opinions is just the type of petty nitpicky bullshit I hate.

    2. Apart from making the fatal error of taking your subjective opinion as literal fact, you are also ignorant about some very objective findings. [http://www.maps.org/research/psilo-lsd/] serotonergics are proven to be, in the right set and setting, profoundly helpful. If you take LSD at a party and expect to get “high”, well then hey, you will probably get really high and enjoy the social aspect, and not find any long-lasting value.
    But as repeatedly shown by MAPS (a government-licensed organization that studies the therapeutic effects of psychedelics), if people are given LSD in a clinical, therapeutic setting, where medical experts are monitoring the environment to make sure it is properly controlled, then LSD will probably be pretty damn helpful in the long run.

    3. You stereotype people who have that particular opinion about LSD (that it has long term psychological benefits). You think people who attribute a lifelong importance to lsd are “partially mentally retarded”, “hippie” “idiots”? *AHEM* allow me to read you a quote: “LSD is one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life” -Steve Jobs

    And one more thing, the people in some of those psychedelic studied included terminal cancer patients without any history of recreational drug use. Many of them said the psychedelics administered to them helped them overcome fears of death, which in turns echoes what Larry Hagman (1950s actor, star of I Dream of Jeannie) said about his LSD use.

    Oh and before you out me as just part of the retarded hippie bunch, this is all coming from someone who has never tried LSD once in their life.

  • Dan

    I’ve tried LSD, and it is awesome. life changing experience to feel unique, and at the same time part of the everything as one (that means universe, stars, planets, animals, humans, water, cells), wonderful simetric moving patterns, with astonishing colors. Although, I have to say I was tripping with flashbacks for 3 months after that, and had some weird experiences like hearing voices, and some freaky stuff.., I guess I have a genetical propension of having some brain diseases like skizofrenia or similar.., so I don’t us it anymore. but I’m glad I did.

  • Archy

    I wonder what she cooked for dinner that night?

  • Wanooski

    I believe Watson and Crick also used LSD to help them uncover the structure of DNA.

  • Anonymous

    Drugs are simply a legal and cultural definition. Substances, by name, can be discussed by adults, and discerned for their individual merits, and that in itself is not advocacy.  LSD is one such substance that has a proportional interest of those whom consider themselves psychonauts and those whom consider themselves civil libertarians. This equates to a generally positive connotation in the subsequent discussion. If you are not able to divorce drugs=bad from a legitimate discussion of altered consciousness / body autonomy you are not adult enough to engage in the discussion in the first place.

  • Lmnop_nis

    I wanna know what it’s gonna take for me to be able to put whatever drug I want in my body in the privacy of my own home without the possibility of incarceration. Who has the right to tell me otherwise? Nobody, because we are all on the same evolutionary step. Nobody is better than anybody. We are all equals.

  • http://twitter.com/wi_ngo wingo shackleford

    This is my new favorite video. You can just see her mind being blown wide open, and it is wonderful.

  • Sroek

    All points of view are distortions. A sober perspective is not any more profound than a drug induced one and vice-versa. However, you must understand that entheogenic substances can unlock the chains of faulty logic that have accumulated in your mind in order for you to see a clearer nature of reality. LSD is one such substance. There’s a reason religions are rooted in shamanism.

  • Steve

    “Luckily, people who attempt such encounters now are jailed.” That is pretty stubborn, don’t you think, Jacob Sloan? It is incredibly Ironic how you write about a mind-opening experience and drug in such a closed-minded way. But I must give credit when credit is do: Good find.

  • Modeleagle

    1,000 mics 

  • Modeleagle

    1000 micrograms (mcg) EQUALS 1 milligram (mg)

  • iLL_WiLL

    I applaud your refutation of the OP’s ignorance and addend it with only one point of my own:

    Both of you would probably very much enjoy the LSD experience.  If given the chance, try it out.

  • Word Eater

    “drugs” have enough positive aspects that everyone should be able to legally choose to be “on dope or LSD” if they want to.

    That is one of the points of this site: to contradict the wrongness of common wisdom.  Common wisdom says that all drugs are bad except those that are produced by pharmaceutical companies and sold to you by a pharmacist.  This is because the government acts in our best interests and restricts access to harmful substances.

    That is a fallacy and it should be exposed and explored.

    Disclosure: I have never tried an illegal drug and I frequently buy medication that is prescribed to me by a doctor to cure illnesses.  I don’t want to overthrow the system; I just want the system to be more enlightened.

  • RvrPadlr

    I have a feeling he was being sarcastic….?

  • Jericho

    I’m assuming that Mr. Sloan is being incredibly ironic. This video inspired me a bit more to try LSD myself. In fact, I have every intention to try it as soon as the setting is right and it’s in my possession. 

  • Anonymous

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  • Yourarse

    ad

  • Jeff

    ‘Luckily, people who attempt such encounters now are jailed.’ why? LSD is harmless due to its tiny consumption and obviously seen it that video, you are in a blissful state of mind, not wanting to harm others unless provoked or insane or of a violent nature. LSD one of the most amazing experiences you will ever undertake but frequent use can lead to insanity.

  • jim

    facepalm*
    sarcasm, anyone?

  • Bigspender2011

    Can anyone get me any LSD as i haven,t had any for forty years its about time we took a trip back down memory  lane the last experience i had with LSD was getting busted with twenty kilo’s of disco powder by customs and trying to keep a straight face 

  • Raggamuffin

    “I wish I could talk in technicolour” that really does sum up an acid trip in one beautiful and abstract sentence.

  • Mattroam77

    flashing pictures on my screen…shown to quickly to be seen…..their sending messages through my tv…their fuckin with me…………………subliminally.

  • Mattroam77

    trips can be controlled to by enviroment, music, pictures,mood, morality,concience and company

  • laughing@dumbasses

    sounds like you took to much forty years ago if your asking for a hookup online……………………..idiot

  • drugs suck

    Not for everyone dont glorify it for those who havent used it.

  • Mattroam77

    this video has some evidence of what could happen but anyone who tells you should try it is crazy. I have seen people cut themselves jump off balcanies jump off trains scratch their face so bad it left permanant scars.it is not all cottencany and gumballs my friend. you can die. or worse you might hurt someone cut your arm off or put your head trough a mirror when you watch your face melt off.DONT DO IT!
    This drug should not be glorified. it can be nice but it can turn horribly scary too. Please dont anyof you who have not done it do it……

  • Butter Knife

    But some are more equal than others…

  • Anon

    Steve, serious irony-detection fail.

  • Anon

    Steve, serious irony-detection fail.

  • Anon

    Oh, you DO know what “irony” means…that’s strange. You can use it correctly in a sentence, but not recognize it’s usage as a vehicle for humor…fascinating…even…ironic.

  • Anonymous

    Very Good work by the Housewife is Trying to make a More and More LSD .
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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1694308338 Michael Bagby

    Enjoyed the video. That woman was very brave considering the cultural norms of the 1950s. How she was able to maintain her composure under the bright lights, foreign environment and questioning is hard to explain. I don’t want to say that the film is a fake, because I don’t know, but I am suspect. I really can’t advocate  LSD use. The world is full of people who could benefit from from a trip to Strawberry Fields, but getting them into an environment to where they might find the trip beneficial would be a very difficult thing to achieve.

  • terrible teens

    Hallucinogens cannot be used easily to manipulate consciousness. Ever wonder why marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance? TPTB don’t like the high that THC gives people….

  • terrible teens

    Y’all are not getting it: the issue here is not control of the hallucinogenic experience, but control of access to hallucinogens.

  • terrible teens

    “I wanna know what it’s gonna take for me to be able to put whatever drug I want in my body in the privacy of my own home….”

    In the early 70′s the streets were flooded with cheap, powerful and readily available weed. The idea was IMHO to keep  potential protesters off of the streets. Now, at least where I live, it seems that heroin is being used to achieve that objective. However, my true point is that such easy availability is a political and historical anomaly which reflects the system feeling threatened. To get what it seems that you want, heavy political action will be required (e.g., 5 million people with bags of their own urine marching on DC to protest mandatory workplace drug-testing)

  • Gypsyranger

    Interesting how a discussion on a ‘oneness’ drug is so not oneness at all.

    I’ve had a couple of experiences on LSD and for now that was enough. 

    Once i remembered to calm myself down i went through s psychedelia of visual treats before the real stuff began. The edge between the conscious and subconsious was rested upon for seemingly a long time. Some of it was pretty scary, in a confronting way.

  • Anon2k03

    libtard, fuck you..still whining about fox news and bush? suck my dick…you’re an idiot.

  • Jose

    When you people learn to control your egoistic mind states and realize that the genetic addition of the reptilian brain gene by the ones who called themselves “gods”(reptilians) in the times of Sumeria caused humans to go down in consciousness limited to 10% or less of brain functionality that in fact forced them to look for their own meaning of life which deteriorated ancient civilizations to the point of being slaves to follow society or being treated as a psycho or burned on a cross for having spiritual knowledge then your so called little materialistic world of illusion and relative logic will dissipate, the Mayan calendar shows very clearly those dimensional gates when the new waves of consciousness will arrive. Wake up humanity, in reality we are infinite souls, never created,part of an all existent consciousness but also have free will so you choose heaven or hell. Peace and Love for All

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Smith/1414000392 Ryan Smith

    I did a lot of LSD during my days of University and over the years it has proven to be one of the biggest experiences in my life. 

  • Nannnacool

    Was almost hospitalized after ‘bad trip.’ Sorry, this is not a fun drug.

  • http://www.facebook.com/cees.timmerman Cees Timmerman

    Did you eat much fat around that time? I read somewhere that that easily stores psychedelics and releases it when burned.

  • http://www.facebook.com/cees.timmerman Cees Timmerman

    Was that drug-inspired, or did the alien conspiracies come by non-chemical means?

  • http://www.facebook.com/cees.timmerman Cees Timmerman

    Actually, it’s not hard to explain for the less-paranoid. She trusted the doctor.

  • http://www.facebook.com/cees.timmerman Cees Timmerman

    They should have provided her with crayons.

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    The nay-sayers will sit in front of their TVs swallowing the most poisonous bullshit and then complain about pyschonauts “who just use drugs to escape reality.” Really? The same way you escape reality by watching FOX “News,” or wasting your money in the mall, or going to Disneyland on “vacation?”  http://www.sheepskin-ugg.co.uk/woman-fox-hair-bailey-button-boots-5531-p-27.html

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  • http://www.facebook.com/sleepygirl Erin O’Brien

    No need to post anything negative about drugs; we are bombarded with that negativity all of the time.  

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  • tglo

    LSD completely cured me of a rather serious bee phobia. As a child, I would panic at the sight of a bee. When I was a teenager, I did some experimentation with lsd. On one trip, I was in my bedroom and I heard bees buzzing in the walls. It was rather overwhelming, and I could have started panicking. But I remembered that I was tripping and I just went with the experience. I’m not sure how it happened, but after that experience, I was no longer phobic.

    This was just one of the positive benefits of LSD. However, I would like to paraphrase Houston Smith: There is a difference between the religious life and the religious experience. LSD can catalyze religious visionary experience, but that’s not the same as a careful, steady cultivation of higher consciousness.

  • Ndorfun

    I agree with your comments in general, but perhaps you have inaccurately classified FOX news with a personal opinion that fails to recognize FOX’s fairness and balance in its presentations.  Good education would help you refrain from such belittling of this honest cable network.

    Jim Ketchum

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